Articles are submitted to IPOL via the
IPOL journal management system.
Anyone is free to register on this system and submit an
article. Submission and publication are free of charge. All
communication between authors, editor and referees is handled by
e-mail via this online system. The procedure is detailed in the
IPOL author manual.

Submissions to IPOL require a manuscript and software, following the
IPOL manuscript guidelines
and
IPOL software guidelines.
An editor can be assigned to help for the online demo to be based on
the submitted software. Manuscript, software and demo are publicly
disclosed in IPOL as a preprint.

A quick evaluation is made by an editor, to decide on the scientific
and practical relevance of the algorithm and the feasibility of the
online demo. This evaluation may be performed on the manuscript only,
to be completed later with software and demo. In case of positive
answer, the submission is carried to peer review.

This material is evaluated by referees, who shall guarantee by
intelligent testing and careful examination that the submitted code
coincides with its algorithm description, and that the experimental
results and failure case analysis proposed by the authors are faithful
and comprehensive.

Once the reviewers and editors are satisfied and the publication has
been accepted, the article enters the copyediting steps, and end up
published in its final form. Per the
IPOL copyright and license agreement,
the articles are available online free of charge and the
the authors retain the copyright of their work, which is distributed
by IPOL under a free license (CC-BY-NC-CA, GPL/BSD, CC-BY).

Outline of the Submission Procedure

For every new article:

start a New Submission in OJS (https://tools.ipol.im/ojs/,
if you are a new user do not forget to register as Author at the end of the registration form);